With the New Year comes resolutions and many friends and colleagues working to lose weight or tone up in 2015. For the past few weeks I’ve been among them, desperate to force my body back to what it once was. But if I’m being honest, even my pre-pregnancy probably wouldn’t be good enough. I’ve struggled […]

I received two beautiful baby books when The Bug was born. One I’ve written in a handful of times, the other is still in the box. It may be shocking considering she’s my first and usually baby number one has everything from a blink to the first haircut recorded. But that’s not to say I […]

The US Department of Labor has joined President Obama and Democratic leaders, including Sen. Angus King I-Maine, in their push for paid maternity and family leave programs at the state level. Yesterday, the department announced it awarded three states and the District of Columbia $500,000 to fund feasibility studies on the development of implementation of […]

If pregnancy and ‘exhausted new mom’ dreams came true: :: I’d be raising a baby elephant, tiger or black bird. My pregnant brain often turned my growing fetus into an animal once night fell. :: My 7-month-old would have a full set of teeth. Multiple times over. (Someone is having a rough go of it, […]

1. Prenatal Yoga: I did this prenatal yoga video at least once a day. I loved that the narrator talked about natural techniques for labor to think about while working through the various poses. I distinctly remember thinking about this when I was laboring, trying to remember the breathing and and using stretches to get […]

The second trimester is a favorite of many, myself included. I had more energy, my skin was clearer than it had even been in childhood and I was starting to feel the baby move, which meant it was all starting to sink in. (Although, that meant I was elated one minute and having full-on freak […]

There must be something in the water, or I’m just entering “that stage” in life because friends and family members are having babies left and right. With each announcement, I look back fondly on my own pregnancy. Even though it ended just a few short months ago, the first trimester, those early weeks when the […]

Natalie Feulner

Natalie Feulner is a journalist and “semi-crunchy” cloth diapering momma to a rambunctious toddler named after a county in California. She drinks too much tea and loves to climb rocks but not at the same time.